As far as Bisping’s fighting goes, I think his main attribute always has been not his striking or anything about his fight game - it’s his attitude. He actually believes that he’s this monster, this beast. It’s kinda like how Diego Sanchez was – he had this attitude, and I think that’s what makes him persevere through fights, this attitude that he’s bigger than life, and I think that carries him a lot, and a big part of the reason why he’s undefeated. Of course, if you’re gonna have that attitude, you’ve got to be really honest with yourself. You’re gonna say, ‘If I’m gonna lose, I’m gonna make it a loss like this, where this guy is feeling me every single second and he never wants to fight me again.’ Then you can afford to have that attitude where you think you’re a beast, because win or lose, you are a beast, and I think you come out on top no matter what.

It gets hard to maintain this though, because you fool yourself, and sometimes I find myself doing it. Sometimes I go in the gym and I do pretty good, and just before I’m about to really push myself to the limit, I’ll be like ‘man, that’s good enough for today.’ But then my coaches are like ‘you better get in there and go a little bit more.’ Sometimes you get kinda complacent; you kinda start feeling yourself a little too much and you get lazy and say, ‘I’m undefeated and I don’t think this guy’s gonna be able to do this.’ That’s when bad things start to happen – when you start believing in your own hype, reading your own press clippings and being your own biggest fan. I won’t let that happen.

Until next week…